When it comes to creating a career pathway for students, Career and Technical Education (CTE) works. In fact, many students graduate from high school with the credentials they need to move right into a job, usually in a high-demand field. CTE training can take place in secondary schools or at an off-site BOCES-operated center, where students are bussed daily for classes.
Along with making students career ready, CTE also reinforces classroom lessons, showing students how core subjects will help them get ahead in their chosen field and giving them an opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of new skills through hands-on, project-based learning.
By meeting them where their interests are – whether it’s video gaming, forensics, agriculture, media and graphic arts, robotics or construction – CTE is also finding new ways to engage students in the classroom and coax them forward towards graduation. In fact, New York high school students who take CTE courses boast a 92 percent graduation rate, and 98 percent of them go on to pursue post-secondary education.
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